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Open a service recording for patient interactions and add clinical items, record progress notes, prescribe medications, review investigations, write referrals and manage recalls.
Medications
This topic covers all Medications Management functionality within Communicare.
Imprest Management
Imprest Management allows management of the Imprest drug list and the Imprest orders.

Encounters
Open a service recording for patient interactions and add clinical items, record progress notes, prescribe medications, review investigations, write referrals and manage recalls.
- Encounters
  Record patient encounters in Communicare using any one of the following methods.
- Medications
  This topic covers all Medications Management functionality within Communicare.
  - Medication Overview
    Displays all Prescription, Administer and Supply medication information for the selected patient.
  - Medication Management Configuration
    Medications management changed significantly in V21.2 and later. Before you upgrade from V19.2 and earlier, consider the configuration options available for medications management in Communicare.
  - Prescribing
    Use Communicare to prescribe medications.
  - Medication History
    Use Medication History to record current medications for a patient of your health service that your patient is taking but which may have been prescribed in hospital or at another service.
  - Administer and Supply Medication
    In Communicare V20.1 and later, the separate Supply and Administer functions are merged into a single Administer and Supply function. Use Administer and Supply to record the administration or supply of a medication, or both administration and supply of a medication during the current service.
  - Imprest Management
    Imprest Management allows management of the Imprest drug list and the Imprest orders.
    - Managing Imprest
      Use the Imprest Management window to manage the medications available in Imprest at your encounter place.
    - Imprest Orders
      Use the Imprest Orders window to create and manage an order for your supplier.
  - Consolidated Orders
    Consolidated orders are groups of medication requests that have been requested from an external pharmacy.
- Clinical Support

Imprest Management

Imprest Management allows management of the Imprest drug list and the Imprest orders.

To enable the Imprest Management functionality, in File > System Parameters > System tab, enable the Medications Management module.

To access the Imprest system, users must belong to a user group that includes the Imprest Management system right.

To manage imprest:

To manage the list of all the Imprest available, including search, add, edit, delete, print and clone the imprest, select File > Imprest Management > Manage Imprest.
To manage the Imprest orders, including search, add, finalise, print, receive or cancel existing orders, select File > Imprest Management > Manage Imprest Orders

9 February 2024